Safeguarding

Safeguarding our children is paramount to ensuring that they are safe and happy, both within school, at home and in the wider community. Being safe and happy allows them the opportunity to maximise their learning opportunities and reach their full potential.

The school works with a wide range of professionals to ensure that any issues around safeguarding which are raised, are dealt with promptly and in the best interests of the child concerned. Other people involved with the school may not always know this is happening, due to matters of confidentiality. We also appreciate that wemay not always know things that happen outside school and in the wider community.

It is important that school and the school community can work together in this important aspect. Therefore, if you have any worries regarding the safeguarding of a child from our school, please contact us, or if it is urgent, serious and/or out of school hours, please contact the Police on the 101 number or Out of hours Call Derbyshire (Children’s /Young Peoples and Adult Social Care) Tel: 01629 533 190Fax: 01629 585 669

Leaflet 2 – Parent and carer social networking guidance at home and in school. This leaflet offers some insight to parents and carers around the dangers of social networking and the appropriate use of social media by their children.

Leaflet 3 – Safeguarding children within our school. This leaflet is designed to help parents and carers who visit our school to understand the expected behaviour around our children in order to ensure their safety and wellbeing.

TV AdvertAs you may be aware the NSPCC have been broadcasting a TV advert to raise awareness of how parents can help their younger children keep safe from child sexual abuse. If you’ve missed it, you can watch it here:https://youtu.be/nMIKUsZjirA

Parents' Pack for PANTS message The TV advert directs parents to the PANTS campaign, used in schools for many years. There is now a pack for parents to use, to encourage them to have a conversation that many might feel uncomfortable about having. Information is also available in Welsh and for children with a hearing impairment. The link to the parents’ PANTS pack is here: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule

Pantosaurus App for iOS and AndroidThe NSPCC have also teamed up with award-winning animators, Aardman to create a free app, for both android and iOS, featuring the Panatsorus characters. There are four mini games where players test their skills against Pantosaurus. The app is great fun to use - get the app by going to the relevant App Store below:

Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Video (NSPCC)There is also a video, again from the NSPCC, that is useful in safeguarding learning and development sessions for staff. The video would also have impact when talking to groups of parents or carers. You can find the ‘Preventing Child Sexual Abuse’ video here: https://youtu.be/UbtSJCw_lqw